I'm an exec in a small company but I just came from a larger company. As for being high class... well... I will have to leave that to your judgement when we meet as opinions vary.
Part of my goal in life is to make gaming 'respectable' in the 'main stream'. I don't hide the fact that I like/collect games and will bring it up in conversation when people ask what I've been up to. I DO get a lot of shocked/bemused looks but I find if you don't flinch, they won't attack the whole
RPG stigma thing... I do have a gamer-ish look to me (table muscle) but I often wear a suit to work and like to go into game stores wearing suit and tie and when the teenage clerk asks me if I need help finding anything I hit them with something like 'yeah, do guys cary any VTM: LARP stuff? Mine got swiped at the last Clan Gathering!' I either get excited cries of glee or the look of a teenager who realizes someone who could be their DAD speaks their secret language and so
RPGs might not be 'alternative' enough for them anymore. As for going on a tour of game shops with you. HELL NO!
From what I hear you're my most dire competition for finding good stuff on the face of the planet! I've been forced to hire a staff of 50 Trained Bolivian Role Players and fly them to strategic gaming hubs around the country to search for stuff in game stores before you get there! Once they report back and have secured a permiter, we'll talk.
(yeah, any time bud, just email me and we'll work something out)
